Flag of Lesotho

Proportion: 2:3Adopted: 4 October 2006Design: A horizontal triband of blue, white and green; charged with a black mokorotlo (a Basotho hat) centred on the white band.

The current national flag of Lesotho, adopted on the 40th anniversary of Lesotho's independence on 4 October 2006, features a horizontal blue, white, and green tricolour with a black mokorotlo (a Basotho hat) in the center. The design is intended to reflect a nation that is both peaceful internally and with its neighbour South Africa, replacing the old flag design that featured a military emblem of a shield, spear and knobkerrie.

The symbolism of the colours is:

Colour

Meaning

Blue

represents the sky or rain.

Green

represents prosperity.

White

represents peace. Lesotho has had the ideology of peace since the ages of King Moshoeshoe I.

Estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected.

Flag of Lesotho

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